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she was the largest individual lender to the new york city government. she lived in the gilded age when society lived lavishly but she rebelled the opulence. she loved her children and friends, lived a simple life. she was caring of those who befriended her and she would show great affection and would say because he does not know how rich i am. living her life as she deemed best to have a career and a mother to her clever investing she showed that women were the equal of any man with newspapers around the world they claimed her the queen up on wall street. and she was "the richest woman in america". there are a lot of sayings of her words of wisdom. she did have a good sense of humor. if you have any questions i would love to answer. >> do you have evidence. >> know. that they should have the right to vote. i found usually successful women like gertrude bell did not believe of women's suffrage, margaret thatcher did not, in zero gandhi they want to make their way in a man's world. >> eight to generalize there is a glass ceiling. when you get into the sit
she was the largest individual lender to the new york city government. she lived in the gilded age when society lived lavishly but she rebelled the opulence. she loved her children and friends, lived a simple life. she was caring of those who befriended her and she would show great affection and would say because he does not know how rich i am. living her life as she deemed best to have a career and a mother to her clever investing she showed that women were the equal of any man with newspapers...
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the church bells start to charm over the city. on the plane, there are three compartments. interfirst sits the press and staff and kennedy's secretaries are sitting there sobbing. in the last compartment jacqueline kennedy is sitting next to her husband. in the center compartment where lyndon johnson is sitting in the president's share there is an air -- we know what he is planning because he is making a list on little note pad on air force one that have the heading air force one and he writes on one of them, one staff, two leaders, a meeting with staff, meeting with the cabinet immediately and congressional leadership. we know about incidents that occurred during a flight, in one case just before it took off. when lyndon johnson calls robert kennedy. these are two men who have hated each other all their lives. at the time kennedy is having lunch he had a house in virginia, a big white old house, there is a long green lawn that goes down to a swimming pool and robert kennedy is sitting at table with robert morgan who had been the u.s. attorney for new york, and two things h
the church bells start to charm over the city. on the plane, there are three compartments. interfirst sits the press and staff and kennedy's secretaries are sitting there sobbing. in the last compartment jacqueline kennedy is sitting next to her husband. in the center compartment where lyndon johnson is sitting in the president's share there is an air -- we know what he is planning because he is making a list on little note pad on air force one that have the heading air force one and he writes...
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speed by which the city has grown. also by the people. people that have survived a lot. keeping the city functioning. it is one of the vital points. it can be a lot of terrible things. and yet the reason that they grow is because people are coming to them from outside the city to grab a job and grab an opportunity to learn english to better their lives. this is a place of opportunity for a lot of people who go there. >> tell the airplane story of. >> airplane story? >> the woman he met on the airplane you oh, my goodness, yes. i was getting on a plane on my way to karachi during one of the reporting trips. i was changing planes and a gentleman struck up a conversation with me. so i was talking and i felt a tap on my shoulder. and it was this teenager from texas. she was of pakistani descent. she was going to karachi. she asked if i was that guy from npr. i was that guy from npr. she introduced me to her mother, who had heard a series of stories that i had done from her city, the home city back in 2008. and remember the
speed by which the city has grown. also by the people. people that have survived a lot. keeping the city functioning. it is one of the vital points. it can be a lot of terrible things. and yet the reason that they grow is because people are coming to them from outside the city to grab a job and grab an opportunity to learn english to better their lives. this is a place of opportunity for a lot of people who go there. >> tell the airplane story of. >> airplane story? >> the...
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the family went back to argentina, i was born during that time, and he was a pastor there in a city called la plata for a period of time and then decided to come back to the u.s., and the opportunity to teach kind of took precedence over his ministry. >> host: did his experience with segregation shake his faith? >> guest: um, it's possible that it did because during the '60s, especially in 1965 he saw some shocking things where, in the baptist church in my hometown of marion. there were actually deacons in the vestibule of the church that were armed with chains and guns ready to turn away black worshipers should they show up. that was a stunning experience for him, and he was marked by it. >> host: who is jimmy -- who was jimmy lee jackson who figures in your book? >> guest: yes. jimmy lee jackson was 26 years old and an activist with the voter registration drive in my hometown of marion. and, um, he was shot by a state trooper on the night of february 18, 1965, and eight days later he died. and it was his death that spurred the march from selma to montgomery. so most people know about tha
the family went back to argentina, i was born during that time, and he was a pastor there in a city called la plata for a period of time and then decided to come back to the u.s., and the opportunity to teach kind of took precedence over his ministry. >> host: did his experience with segregation shake his faith? >> guest: um, it's possible that it did because during the '60s, especially in 1965 he saw some shocking things where, in the baptist church in my hometown of marion. there...
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school age children, teenagers, in the southern city of duras in syria. that touched a nerve. that sort of thing happened in syria quite a bit over the years, but in the new circumstances of the arab spring, and the regime didn't under the new circumstances -- it just grew and grew and grew after that. and it unleashed -- i think this pentup frustration, especially among an empowered and energized and largely disenfranchised youth, especially with the help of the new social instrument of the social media, and the regime was totally caught offguard. they didn't realize that syria had been suffering from many of the same socioeconomic and political problems as many of these other countries. the growth rates, one of the highest in the world. the 60% of the population under the age of 25. general unemployment at 25% countrywide, who is a low figure. and higher, over 50-60% among males and females age 25 and younger. and you look at any country in the arab world experiencing the arab spring and these are similar numbers to what i just described. so, there were
school age children, teenagers, in the southern city of duras in syria. that touched a nerve. that sort of thing happened in syria quite a bit over the years, but in the new circumstances of the arab spring, and the regime didn't under the new circumstances -- it just grew and grew and grew after that. and it unleashed -- i think this pentup frustration, especially among an empowered and energized and largely disenfranchised youth, especially with the help of the new social instrument of the...
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greenberg told the conference of the grossly overcrowded county hospital, the city's only public hospital with local describes as a death house, a single overcrowded private hospital served the entire african-american community of the south side. chicago's outpatient clinics were filled to bursting. greenberg spoke of people too 6 to leave their homes but couldn't get a doctor to visit them or couldn't afford the two pennies for transportation to a clinic. she told the audience about a child's with double pneumonia who had died of an abscessed long after being turned out of a hospital because the relief agency would no longer pay for care. on behalf of the working people of chicago, florence greenberg made the following demand -- we are asking our government to take health from the list of luxury to be bought only with money and add it to the list containing inalienable rights of every citizen. we don't know whether franklin roosevelt ever heard about florence greenberg's unprecedented call for health care as a right. even though he had endorsed the conference, he chose to go on vacation.
greenberg told the conference of the grossly overcrowded county hospital, the city's only public hospital with local describes as a death house, a single overcrowded private hospital served the entire african-american community of the south side. chicago's outpatient clinics were filled to bursting. greenberg spoke of people too 6 to leave their homes but couldn't get a doctor to visit them or couldn't afford the two pennies for transportation to a clinic. she told the audience about a child's...
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and keep the city functioning. and that can is one of the vital points. we think of these giant growing cities in the developing world as terrifying places that are polluted, that can be dangerous, that can be a lot of terrible things and yet the reason they grow is because people are coming to them from outside the city to grab a chunk of to grab an opportunity, to learn some english to connect to the global economy to better their lives. this amazingly enough is a place of opportunity for a lot of people who go there. >> tell the airplane story. >> the l. -- the airplane story? >> the woman you met? >> oh, my goodness, yes. i was getting on a plane on my way to karachi during one of the reporting trips. i was changing planes in doha and a chairman struck up a conversation with me so i was talking and i felt a tap on my shoulder, and it was this teenager from texas, but on pakistan to send. she was on the plane. she's going to karachi and she said are you the guy from npr? an action i was that guy from npr. she in
and keep the city functioning. and that can is one of the vital points. we think of these giant growing cities in the developing world as terrifying places that are polluted, that can be dangerous, that can be a lot of terrible things and yet the reason they grow is because people are coming to them from outside the city to grab a chunk of to grab an opportunity, to learn some english to connect to the global economy to better their lives. this amazingly enough is a place of opportunity for a...
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20 cities of 1 million people to almost 20 cities of ten million people and in doing that they will be building our highways and power plants of tomorrow and the czech writer has a lot of power in what these look like so they will be dictating what those things look like as well and as they create vast reserves of wealth and giving it to people who need to borrow it europeans who need to borrow it gain influence that way and when they go to latin america where they are the number one trading partner investor in brazil or africa where they are number one investor they get a lot of influence that way. is not just economic growth but economic leverage and economic power. they are growing as a soft power leader in the world and that is something we need to watch carefully because their interests do not always a line which hours. >> host: next call from maurice in walton, ky. >> caller: hello. >> host: please go ahead. >> caller: i would like to ask mr. rothkopf to cite some examples of large corporations that government has a withdrawn regulations, governing those industries. when the o
20 cities of 1 million people to almost 20 cities of ten million people and in doing that they will be building our highways and power plants of tomorrow and the czech writer has a lot of power in what these look like so they will be dictating what those things look like as well and as they create vast reserves of wealth and giving it to people who need to borrow it europeans who need to borrow it gain influence that way and when they go to latin america where they are the number one trading...
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how can we keep inculcating the squawks one thing is in the big city it's easy to inculcate this in the city where you come across people look different all the time. then i also talk about literature. when i was a kid i didn't come across people were different all the time and i learned about religious minorities, african-americans, i learned from books there was a particular author i talk about who was a pennsylvania woman that wrote books about religious minorities and she particularly focused on the minorities that had lives that seemed constraining and one of my favorite books when i was little was about a little quaker girl once the dresses her classmates had and she hates that her mother is urging her to wear this so then one day set in the pogo of the underground railroad a woman comes to is a sleeve on the underground railroad she sees this little girl and knows right away this is somebody that stands up for me and will help me so she asks can you find me a place to hide and she realizes the religion has constraints about positive ideas in the social justice and then she become
how can we keep inculcating the squawks one thing is in the big city it's easy to inculcate this in the city where you come across people look different all the time. then i also talk about literature. when i was a kid i didn't come across people were different all the time and i learned about religious minorities, african-americans, i learned from books there was a particular author i talk about who was a pennsylvania woman that wrote books about religious minorities and she particularly...
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johnson, the first lady's great-grandmother who traveled to four cities, she was a sharecropper's daughter born in 1879 and somewhere along the way she decided she did not want anything to do with the farming life and she was one of the first of michele obama's and sisters to set site on chicago in 1908. this is her husband who was a minister who also lived in chicago. this is the first lady's great great grandmother, and she arrived in illinois some time in the 1860s. the first lady describes herself as a south side girl but the family had no idea their roots in illinois go that far back. if you look at mary, you will understand why the family story says she was part cherokee. she obviously has a mixed lineage but i was never able to establish for sure whether that was true. this is the first lady's grandfather, a mislabeled slide, who left south carolina and arrive in chicago around 1931. this is millvinia, the owner of millvinia's brother. this is a photo, this is an amazing coat, there is a nice story behind this one. after the book was published and after an article about the book cam
johnson, the first lady's great-grandmother who traveled to four cities, she was a sharecropper's daughter born in 1879 and somewhere along the way she decided she did not want anything to do with the farming life and she was one of the first of michele obama's and sisters to set site on chicago in 1908. this is her husband who was a minister who also lived in chicago. this is the first lady's great great grandmother, and she arrived in illinois some time in the 1860s. the first lady describes...
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he is the on the kansas city president. >> i am from kansas city. >> could we pause for a minute? where did you go to high school? >> she is from johnson county. it is okay. that is called cupcake plant >> i have read your humorous books but the favorite is about alice what is your favorite the you have written? >> that would be one of them i have written a lot of different kinds. it is apples and oranges for comparison. and another way to look at it and never got my act together but about alice maybe. >> did your mom they call the pies for the restaurant? >> they were naturally lead baked by a black woman named thelma. [laughter] i have often talked about my mother's cooking. 30 years she served nothing but leftovers. [laughter] i was out of college before i realized leftover from what? that the original was never found. they were lucky she did not take the prize. we had 50 years 60 things on the table then she wooded jump up in the middle to say she forgot the jello mold. mother always said everything tastes better on the second day. i don't know about the fourth day. >> i met m
he is the on the kansas city president. >> i am from kansas city. >> could we pause for a minute? where did you go to high school? >> she is from johnson county. it is okay. that is called cupcake plant >> i have read your humorous books but the favorite is about alice what is your favorite the you have written? >> that would be one of them i have written a lot of different kinds. it is apples and oranges for comparison. and another way to look at it and never got...
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but it really was another kansas city better in the kansas city journalism, the great military writer, rick atkins, who opened my eyes that i could actually write this book because he had launched into his trilogy on world war ii. the third book comes out next year. make sure you buy it. it's wonderful stuff. he won the pulitzer prize for the first volume and it was doing so well. a patch myself, a lot of books have been about world war ii also. but it's possible to write a great one. the reason all these books are written is because these events are important and are interesting. and so, that sort of freak me to think that i can do the book i wanted to do instead of just a book that i thought strategically would be. so it was really just the idea of not wanting not to do a book about abraham lincoln. one more. yeah, roger. we'll do as many -- i'll take them all night. >> of the three-part question. the first did you attend the the movie premiered at spielberg's lincoln? the second part is, did you meet steven spielberg? in the third part of this is your book how to drive the attendan
but it really was another kansas city better in the kansas city journalism, the great military writer, rick atkins, who opened my eyes that i could actually write this book because he had launched into his trilogy on world war ii. the third book comes out next year. make sure you buy it. it's wonderful stuff. he won the pulitzer prize for the first volume and it was doing so well. a patch myself, a lot of books have been about world war ii also. but it's possible to write a great one. the...
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in the following marked caisson, da nang and weighs city. the next-to-last one marked beirut, kuwait and somalia and the final barrier carried the names of some in of the marine corps's most recent battles, nasiriyah, baghdad and fallujah. as we exit the wire, suddenly the the battle name stops and we became part of history ourselves. now it's strange to think that just 11 years ago, last night, we all went to bed peacefully without any notions the following morning we were going to be thrown ready or not into what became the longest war in american history and it's hard now for me to imagine words like fallujah and nasiriyah and al-qaim without having some sort of emotional response. it's hard to remember what it was like to think about a date like september 11, without all the emotions it brings up. is also equally difficult to remember all my classmates and we were all like before this great burden of four was placed on our shoulders forcing us to grow up faster than anyone imagined we would have to. our country's response to 9/11 really
in the following marked caisson, da nang and weighs city. the next-to-last one marked beirut, kuwait and somalia and the final barrier carried the names of some in of the marine corps's most recent battles, nasiriyah, baghdad and fallujah. as we exit the wire, suddenly the the battle name stops and we became part of history ourselves. now it's strange to think that just 11 years ago, last night, we all went to bed peacefully without any notions the following morning we were going to be thrown...
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the national anti-war movement became a particularly heated thing after the troops captured mexico city on september 14th 1847, and here's an image of scott entering mexico city. if you look at the lower left-hand corner, you concede someone picking a barack in preparing to throw at the american troops. this is an immense that expresses the extreme hostility of many people in mexico city to having their city occupied by american troops. initially americans are extremely enthusiastic about the fact that their army had conquered the capital of another country, but when mexicans still refuse to come to terms and in the peace treaty, what began was very bleak occupation that ended up being terrible for the army in terrible for the pro-war movement generally. winfield scott's troops were suggested to daily -- subjected to daily guerrilla warfare, and there was no end in sight because mexico refused to get up at the same time a lot of expansionists in the united states, once the united states captured mexico city argues that maybe the u.s. should annex all of mexico. if you already conquered
the national anti-war movement became a particularly heated thing after the troops captured mexico city on september 14th 1847, and here's an image of scott entering mexico city. if you look at the lower left-hand corner, you concede someone picking a barack in preparing to throw at the american troops. this is an immense that expresses the extreme hostility of many people in mexico city to having their city occupied by american troops. initially americans are extremely enthusiastic about the...
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as i tell my history students, i teach at the city university of new york in the ph.d. program -- [applause] >> thank you. [laughter] as i tell my history students until they wallet to choke me, the -- they want to choke me, the past is a foreign country. we can visit there, try to learn the customs, translate the language, feel the air and the light, sniff the fragrances, recoil at the foul odors, but we are foreigners in a strange land. this is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy, as i learned this time around. first, there are people you have to talk to. [laughter] and while i was blessed from beginning to end by having some fascinating people to talk to about joe kennedy including large numbers of kennedys, i much prefer working from written documents to listening to people talk and trying to figure out what's real, what's imagined, what they know, what they think they know because someone told them, what they think they know but they don't know at all. the other difficulty ab
as i tell my history students, i teach at the city university of new york in the ph.d. program -- [applause] >> thank you. [laughter] as i tell my history students until they wallet to choke me, the -- they want to choke me, the past is a foreign country. we can visit there, try to learn the customs, translate the language, feel the air and the light, sniff the fragrances, recoil at the foul odors, but we are foreigners in a strange land. this is true as much of the recent past as it is...
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this is an image that expresses the extreme hostility of many people in mexico city. having their city occupied by american troops. initially, as you can imagine, americans were excited that their army had captured the capital of another country. but what began was actually a period of bleak occupations and it ended up being terrible for the army and the pro-movement of war generally. winfield scott's troops were subjected to daily guerrilla warfare by mexican forces and there was no end to the war inside because mexico still refused to give up. and at the same time, a lot of expansion in the united states, they began to argue that maybe the u.s. should not annex all of mexico. if you have captured all of the capital, people began to question whether the war should go on any further. the turning point in the creation of a national war movement occurs two months after scott occupies mexico city. henry clay gave a major speech in lexington, after the war. and clay had been out of the public spotlight since his terrible to feed by james k. polk in 1834. a defeat that was
this is an image that expresses the extreme hostility of many people in mexico city. having their city occupied by american troops. initially, as you can imagine, americans were excited that their army had captured the capital of another country. but what began was actually a period of bleak occupations and it ended up being terrible for the army and the pro-movement of war generally. winfield scott's troops were subjected to daily guerrilla warfare by mexican forces and there was no end to the...
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at the same time come expansionists in the united states once the unit is captured mexico city began to argue the u.s. should annex all of mexico. if you've are to conquer the capital city, why not take it out. it's at this point the people around the country begin to question whether this war should go on any further. the turning point in the creation of the national war movement occurs two months after scott occupies mexico city, windbreak henry clay gave a speech in mexicans, can turkey against the war. clay had been out of the spotlight and his disastrous terrible defeat by james k. polk and the election of 18 for what she never expected and frankly should not believe for the fact he opposed the annexation of texas. unfortunately, henry clay not only had to suffer through that defeat, but his namesake, henry clay junior like john jay harden, although he was a whig a one to two trips to mexico. henry clay junior becomes the leader of kentucky troops come it takes them to mexico and is coded the battle we do this to justify john jay harden is. so henry clay has raised the death of
at the same time come expansionists in the united states once the unit is captured mexico city began to argue the u.s. should annex all of mexico. if you've are to conquer the capital city, why not take it out. it's at this point the people around the country begin to question whether this war should go on any further. the turning point in the creation of the national war movement occurs two months after scott occupies mexico city, windbreak henry clay gave a speech in mexicans, can turkey...
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because the times have also reported and this in case they reported me, it's not about being glitz city, it's about increasing the impact great books have on the culture. that is our mission and that is why we are here tonight. [applause] keeping with that, i would like acknowledge the extraordinary writers in the room. with i have amazing writers. command mention them all. i can mention a few. i'm going ask you to hold your applause until i'm done. let me run through a few people. maryann hobberman, james carol, edward, victor, lily, jean valentine, robert cairo, and are also winners of the pulitzer prize. juneau diaz, katherine, and tracy smith, amanda foreman. national book critic circle wins nora and robert and dave eagers recipient of the literary award and stephen king. please join me in recognizing these great american writers. [applause] i would like to our financial supporters. without whom woe couldn't bring you awards the or programs. i would like you to hold your applause until i've read the list. premier sponsors barnes & noble, ban skies, random house, the ford foundation,
because the times have also reported and this in case they reported me, it's not about being glitz city, it's about increasing the impact great books have on the culture. that is our mission and that is why we are here tonight. [applause] keeping with that, i would like acknowledge the extraordinary writers in the room. with i have amazing writers. command mention them all. i can mention a few. i'm going ask you to hold your applause until i'm done. let me run through a few people. maryann...
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the black methamphetamine were miserable, the whites cruel and indifference. that's actually not true at all. in washington -- washington had 30 thousands people then as a city. 12,000 were black. the majority of the people in 1830 were free, were not slaves out of the 12,000 people, slightly more than half were free. >> what led to washington, d.c.'s first race riots in 1835? what part did francis scott key play? jefferson recounts this almost forgotten chapter in history in "snowstorm in august" on c-span2's booktv.org. >> we don't know whether franklin roosevelt heard about forest greenberg's unprecedented call for health care as a right because even though he had endorsed the conference, he chose that time to go on vacation. frksz dr was actually on a cruise. it was probably a well-deserved vacation. three years earlier, he refused to include medical coverage because he didn't want to antagonize the american medical profession. he did send a message of support to the health department corchtion, but not long afterwards, the outbreak of world war ii forced
the black methamphetamine were miserable, the whites cruel and indifference. that's actually not true at all. in washington -- washington had 30 thousands people then as a city. 12,000 were black. the majority of the people in 1830 were free, were not slaves out of the 12,000 people, slightly more than half were free. >> what led to washington, d.c.'s first race riots in 1835? what part did francis scott key play? jefferson recounts this almost forgotten chapter in history in...
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on the deep of the centennial of the surrender, in a city where the confederacy was born, baldwin as he had been doing for years, tried to kill that old story, asking everyone to see into a new history we never had before. after all, he, too, just wanted to be loved, just wanted to be free. [applause] >> oh, thank you, david. thank you so much. last but not least, ladies and gentlemen, arnold rampersad. arnold rampersad was driven to write his ph.d dissertation at harvard on w.e.b. dubois of what he thought was lacking in prior attempts to ready the great man's life. characteristic generosity, he said and ago, all of us pointed written about him had been good jobs, i believe that they had missed genuine essence. to my opinion, is the grandly poetic imagination he brought to the distancing in describing black america and america itself, unquote. from the vantage point of knowing and admiring professor rampersad for years and years and years, i would say that my dear friend shares w.e.b. dubois' genuine essence. through the lens of his biographical subjects, this premier biographer has
on the deep of the centennial of the surrender, in a city where the confederacy was born, baldwin as he had been doing for years, tried to kill that old story, asking everyone to see into a new history we never had before. after all, he, too, just wanted to be loved, just wanted to be free. [applause] >> oh, thank you, david. thank you so much. last but not least, ladies and gentlemen, arnold rampersad. arnold rampersad was driven to write his ph.d dissertation at harvard on w.e.b. dubois...